Approach To Narrative: Birdman

BIRDMAN

Birdman is a film that talks about Riggan Thomson former cinema superhero who is mounting an ambitious Broadway production that he hopes will bring him a new life into his stagnant career. Birdman is a film that has a quince way of the storyteller and camera work, the greater or director of Birdman have a unique way of using space and time in order to serve his own purpose. 

In Birdman we can see space been used a lot in the film special in the theater that Riggan perform, due to the camera work it makes the theater look like a maze when the camera is leading each character around this theater it gave a feeling of a maze or maybe to symbolize a maze in relation to the narrative of a film. Time is a key element that using a lot in the film for example in the first half hour of the film when one of the co-actor has injuries for purposes in order to cast a new actor and this scene we can see that by the time that Riggan ask to cast other actor and the time that he meet the actor is making it look like it happens within a few hours but in reality of the film it took a day or more. Time in that particular scene is being shorted on purpose to create that emotion to the audience.

In Birdman the narrative of the film is much more communicated from the perspective or the point of view of the main character like Riggan who is participated throughout the film and Riggan also being the key character that running the film or I can say that everything is happened arming Riggan. Birdman is a film that playing with space-time and time, so in order to play with space and time long take is using a lot in walk scene especially at the backstage of the theater were the character and audience being lead and introduce to space around the theater. Long take in Birdman is very complicated to make due to space is very limited and props are everywhere so in order to create that kind of short it took a lot of practicing both actor and camera operator. This particular long take is had a lot impact on how the audience experience of space and time in the narrative of the film.